The Call Deadline was extended to January 18th, 2010.

The Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association invites accounting faculty and doctoral students to submit papers for presentation at a jointly sponsored conference in the easy to access location of Arlington, Virginia.

Papers appropriate for this conference are those which relate to public interest topics, accounting history topics or both areas of scholarship.
Sample themes may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Accounting ethics vis-à-vis professional ethics
• Public interest/policy aspects of regulation: Sarbanes-Oxley, Tax Laws, SEC Rules, Auditing Standards etc.
• Corporate governance and stakeholder interest
• Perspectives on the accounting profession and accounting practice
• Research methodologies
• Accounting education
• Globalization and accounting in international environments
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on accounting
• Accounting, the environment and sustainability
• Corporate social reporting
• Gender studies
• Commercialization
• Accounting and the state

The two-day conference will begin with lunch on Friday and conclude at 5pm on Saturday. The conference will take place at the Hyatt Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
In addition to the conference, we will be offering a doctoral and new faculty consortium for eligible members at no charge on Friday morning. A reduced registration fee of $25 will be charged for doctoral students wishing to attend the remainder of the conference.

Papers should be submitted for consideration via e-mail attachment to the appropriate conference editor no later than January 15, 2010. Please identify all authors, their positions, and affiliations in the email but not in the attached paper.

Papers submitted for review should be e-mailed to Christine Earley at PIS2010@providence.edu She can be reached at 401-865-2056 for any questions or other details about the conference. The submission fee for this conference has been waived. If you have previously submitted a submission fee, you will be contacted about having this fee returned to you.

Decisions on submissions will be communicated to authors on or before February 28, 2010.

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